Nick Ferrari

Writer and LBC radio presenter

Enough is enough, it is time to protect us from hate

SUDDENLY that age-old quotation "as you sow, so shall you reap" takes on a new and horrific reality with the beheading of a US journalist held captive by murderous terrorists clearly belonging to medieval times.

Foley was killed at the hands of someone many believe to be British[AP]

It is also a tragic fact that James Foley is not the first victim of a gruesome beheading filmed by Islamist murderers to be made available worldwide via social media.

However, while the filming of this latest travesty is far and away the most professional to date, complete with clip-on microphones, graphics and the chilling use of the fading to black technique, what has caused it to resonate so deeply with the whole of Britain is that it is the first one that would appear to have had the commentary supplied by someone who sounds as if they would be more at home in Only Fools And Horses.

The terror group IS is keen to portray this as an execution in response to a bombing authorised by Barack Obama. However, the term "execution" implies some form of trial, or hearing was convened prior to the sentence being enforced. There was none of that here. Rather, we were treated to the rantings of a modern day, home-grown cut-throat. It was murder, plain and simple.

This is the price we have to pay for the years we allowed hate-filled preachers to spread their messages of evil and unrest to vulnerable young recruits outside mosques each week with police just watching and doing nothing more than making up the numbers. We did nothing as some of our schools were infiltrated to the point where Christmas was banned, non-Muslim children were denied the opportunity to go on school trips and the public address system was hijacked to broadcast the daily call to prayer.

We permitted groups of mostly Muslim agitators to burn poppies in front of horri-fied former servicemen, carry posters advocating the murder of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and yell ugly chants with the police again doing nothing more than acting as spectators.

The liberal Left, egged on by a combination of the chattering classes and a supine media led by state broadcaster the BBC crippled with the fear of being seen to be anything less than insanely tolerant, ensured that instead of offering any credible resistance to the creeping tide of treachery, the perverted zealots were as much encouraged as they were indulged.

Everything was done in favour of a tiny and, in some parts, twisted minority, and the rest of us would have to lump it.

Farcical court cases belonging to a Carry On movie and which highlighted Britain's impotence in dealing with the terror in her midst and wholly unable to ship out undesirable foreign nationals, were seized on as examples of how weak and outdated our legal system is.

Perhaps the most sickening aspect of the lot is that so many of those nursing hate in their hearts and murder in their heads are being funded by our benefit system. They might despise the West and all it stands for but clearly they can suspend the disgust long enough to cash their giros.

Even if we have now woken up to the hate preachers and suspect mosques it is, sadly, too late. Today the internet and social media are the means by which the next crop of killers is identified and recruited.

It is estimated that up to 250 of the 1,000 Britons said to have gone to fight their "holy" war have now returned. It is perfectly feasible that some, having seen conflict at first hand, will be so thrilled by it they will seek to bring their fanatical devotion to a high street near you when they return to their unremarkable lives. As it appears the British jihadis are among the most vicious and highly skilled IS has to offer, there is every reason to be extremely anxious.

At next year's general election, we will be voting in the government that has to protect us against those people and any of their vile counterparts who also come home.

In truth, do you really trust any of them with that life or death responsibility?

Mrs Danczuk's selfies have stirred up a controversy on Twitter [TWITTER]

Supporters say we need more women in politics. I have to say it would certainly liven things up a bit

THERE is a bit of a political catfight going on between Karen Danczuk, wife of Labour MP Simon Danczuk, and former Conservative MP Louise Mensch, and bizarrely it seems to centre on breasts, bacon sandwiches and a facelift.

Rochdale councillor Mrs Danczuk, 31, has taken to tweeting pictures of herself in an array of low-cut tops. This infuriated Mensch, who tweeted: "Put them away love. Frankly, I'd rather see Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich."

Mrs Danczuk's reply implied Mensch's husband would approve of her embonpoint, so that elicited from Mensch the view the councillor was "making a tit" of herself personally and politically. Amazingly, it doesn't end there. Danczuk got in another low blow by writing: "Go stretch your face some more," a clear dig at Mensch's facelift.

Supporters say we need more women in politics. Reading all of this, I have to say it would certainly liven things up a bit.

WHAT a bad week for Rail Minister Claire Perry, who ended up showing she was hopelessly out of touch with the realities of rail commuting that most of us endure and also left herself open to the hugely damaging charge of being a crass hypocrite.

She defended the up to 5.5 per cent jump in fares by talking about "fair fares for comfortable commuting". Just how she can label paying thousands of pounds each year for the privilege of being regularly forced to travel with your nose stuck in the armpit of a spotty youth from IT as "comfortable" is mindboggling.

Then it was revealed that of the 68 times that she travelled from work to her Wiltshire constituency last year, 66 were by car.

Obama in a muddle

SOMEONE answer me this: What is the point of Barack Obama? Having swept into the White House on a sickening tide of Left-wing glee, he has been found wanting more times than the Indian batting line-up and his handling of current crises is simply woeful.

He clearly has to be dragged from the golf course to appear at press conferences and while I know and partially agree the necktie is an increasingly obsolete male fashion adornment, he is the President, this is a global threat and he does need to look the part.

His thinking over IS is muddled and the wisdom of invoking God in his argument in a combat that many hotheads see as a modern-day crusade was fatuous.

In his own country, nightly riots in Missouri for almost two weeks show how thin the veneer of racial harmony truly is in much of the US.

The domestic dilemma, which turns completely on police handling of black youth in one area, is even more embarrassing for the nation's first black president. If he cannot even get through to those rioters, it is probably best he just concentrates on his putting.

ON THE subject of a spreading Islamic caliphate complete with beheadings, torture and the kind of violence unseen since the middle ages creeping ever closer to European borders, our Euro leaders have been totally silent.

However, they have come down hard on vacuum cleaners, decreeing those with excessive wattage will be banned. When can we have that vote on this entire costly, pointless, enterprise?